Monday, October 7, 2013

Kerry Dismisses Iran’s Call for New Nuclear Proposal

Secretary of State John Kerry said today that warming relations
between United States and Iran do not mean the U.S. will back off its demands
about Iran’s nuclear program.

Kerry made the remarks during a joint press conference with Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Bali. Kerry was effectively responding to
yesterday’s remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif who had said the
current P5+1 proposal made in Almaty in February was “history,” and the P5+1
should come to negotiating table with Iran with a new approach. Iran had never responded
to the Almaty proposal.

“We’re
waiting for the fullness of the Iranian difference in their approach now,”
Kerry said “But we’re encouraged by the statements that were made in New York,
and we’re encouraged by the outreach.”

Lavrov,
who will be attending next week’s Geneva talks on Iran nuclear program, P5+1
wants “a road map which would, at the end of the day, satisfy the international
community that the Iranian nuclear program is entirely peaceful” and put under
the full control of international nuclear monitors.

“Iran
probably wants more clarity, more specific steps to be spelled out on the road
to the result which we all want to achieve,” Lavrov said. “And I think this
would be discussed next week in Geneva.” (The Washington Post, 7 October)

Photo credit: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov take part in a press conference on the sidelines of the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit on Indonesia's resort island of
Bali, October 7, 2013. (Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images/WashPost)

If the U.S. approach remains fixed on Iran's surrendering of its nuclear program in return for sanction relief addressing only a couple of Iran's counter-sanction measures (like oil for gold from a few countries), then the next round of talks is bound to fail, just as the SL branch of IRGC and the IRGC are expecting.

Mark is being honest and objective !-to win the support of the hardliners in Iran, the US needs to shade its lies and clumsy flip-flops and come on the negotiation table with a new approach since the new team in IRAN is fully committed to resolving the nuclear issue and open another chapter -just that!!. now before you declare Mark a persona non Grata in the US ,do you get His point?

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